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Title: Report of the Basic Research Needs Workshop on Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage, March 27 – 29, 2017

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1616289· OSTI ID:1616289
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  1. Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  6. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  7. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  8. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  10. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  11. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  12. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  13. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  14. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  15. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  16. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  17. Dept. of Energy (DOE), Washington DC (United States). Office of Science. Basic Energy Sciences
  18. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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The last decade has opened rich new horizons in electrical energy storage, with compelling impacts on society. Personal electronics have transformed from a novelty to a necessity. New options for transportation are burgeoning. In energy storage science, emerging new approaches are illuminating the inner workings of energy storage at the atomic and molecular scales with extensions to the meso and macro levels. The stage is set — with ripe new directions for basic energy storage science and promising new opportunities for energy storage for the electricity grid, transportation, the internet of things, and national defense. Next generation electrical energy storage could be as transformational for energy applications as lithium-ion batteries were for personal electronics. This report examines the opportunities in basic energy storage science that will bring this vision for the future to fruition. Sea changes are in the offing, moving from intuitive speculation to confirmed scientific knowledge, from trial-and-error serendipity to science-based design, and from qualitative models to quantitative predictions. To navigate towards these changes, Priority Research Directions (PRDs) were formulated by 175 leading scientists and engineers during a Basic Research Needs Workshop on Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on March 27-29, 2017. This diverse community included experts in theory, simulation, characterization, electrochemistry, and synthesis of electrochemically active materials and chemistries. They uncovered a rich horizon of compelling directions that promise to link diverse electrochemical phenomena (such as solvation, mobility, reactivity, and degradation) in a single interactive framework.

Research Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC) (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI ID:
1616289
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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